Gender-tailored methods to address harmful mental health effects of childhood adversity may help alleviate current opioid crisis and make treatment more effective. Women with opioid use disorder are more likely than men to have mood and anxiety disorders, and less likely to have conduct disorders.
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Association Between Use of Multiple Classes of Antibiotic in Infancy and Allergic Disease in Childhood (Dec 2019, n=798,426) "all commonly prescribed antibiotics during infancy are associated with subsequent diagnosis of allergic disease"
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Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans, consistent with the fighting hypothesis, which argues that left-handed men have a selective advantage in fights because they are less frequent, suggests a new study of 13,800 male and female professional boxers and MMA fighters.
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Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans
Scientific Reports - Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans
Brains of adolescents struggling with mental-health issues may be wired differently from those of their healthy peers. Research shows clear differences in connective neural pathways, as a function of cognitive control, between the healthy adolescents and those struggling with mental-health issues.
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Understanding the adolescent brain
Study shows brains of adolescents struggling with mental illness are structurally different than healthy peers.
BBC News 中文 | 人类的近亲生活也不容易,要跟同族同类斗,还要跟人斗。
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《七个世界,一个星球》拍摄感悟和花絮(1):与猴斗、与人斗
《七个世界,一个星球》(Seven Worlds, One Planet)是BBC Studio 继《蓝色星球》、《地球脉动》和《王朝》之后推出的一部记述与人类共享地球的其他生物的系列纪录片。那些令人震撼、惊心动魄的画面、拨动人心弦的场景、令人匪夷所思的奇观......摄制组成员在这里分享自己的亲身经历和感悟。 《七个世界,一个星球》拍摄期间最令人难忘的经历之一,是去直布罗陀拍巴巴里猕猴(Barbary macaques)那段。 运气不错。我们要拍的那群巴巴里猕猴已经被跟踪、研究多年,所以开机前就对这群…
Caffeine may offset some health risks of diets high in fat and sugar, suggests a new study of rats, by reducing the storage of lipids in fat cells and limiting weight gain and the production of triglycerides. Rats that consumed caffeine gained 16% less weight and accumulated 22% less body fat.
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Caffeine may offset some health risks of diets high in fat, sugar
Caffeine may offset some of the negative effects of an obesogenic diet by reducing lipid storage, weight gain and the production of triglycerides, University of Illinois scientists found in a new study of rats.
Evolutionary Changes in Brain Potentially Make us More Prone to Anxiety. Results of the study reveal that our ancestors may have been able to withstand higher levels of anxiety or depression.
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Evolutionary Changes in Brain Potentially Make us More Prone to Anxiety
Researchers revealed the evolutionary changes in neurotransmitter uptake of VMAT1 by reconstructing ancestral VMAT1 proteins.
Chimpanzees more likely to share tools, teach skills when task is complex. The study helps illuminate chimpanzees’ capacity for prosocial — or helping — behavior, a quality that has been recognized for its potential role in the evolution of human cultural abilities.
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New Arts & Sciences research finds that chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices. The study helps illuminate chimpanzees’ capacity for prosocial — or helping — behavior, a quality…
Vaccine hesitancy, the reluctance or refusal to receive vaccination, is a growing public health problem in the US and globally. A new study suggests that government policies removing nonmedical exemptions can be effective at increasing vaccination coverage.
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The 2016 California policy to eliminate nonmedical vaccine exemptions and changes in vaccine coverage: An empirical policy analysis
In an empirical policy analysis, Nyathi and colleagues estimate changes in vaccine coverage associated with the 2016 California policy (Senate Bill 277) restricting non-medical exemptions for children’s school immunization requirements
Chimpanzees seen clapping, tapping and swaying along to piano rhythms, spontaneously without training or reward, in a new study in PNAS, suggesting that the urge to dance has a prehuman origin, reaching at least as far back as the primate from which humans and chimps descended around 6m years ago.
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Cha-cha-chimp? Ape study suggests urge to dance is prehuman
Chimpanzees seen clapping, tapping and swaying along to piano rhythms in a music booth
Ability of re-grown Amazon forest to combat climate change 'vastly overestimated'. Secondary forest areas held just 40 per cent as much carbon dioxide as sequestered by parts of the Amazon untouched by humans, casting doubt on their ability to aid in mitigating the crisis.
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Ability of re-grown Amazon forest to combat climate change ‘vastly overestimated’, study suggests
The capacity of re-grown areas of the Amazon rainforest to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and combat climate change may have been “vastly overestimated”, scientists fear. The forest is a
Brain-like functions emerging in a metallic nanowire network, reports new Japanese study, able to generate electrical characteristics similar to those associated with higher order brain functions unique to humans, such as memorization, learning, forgetting, becoming alert and returning to calm.
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Brain-like Functions Emerging in a Metallic Nanowire Network | NIMS
Brain-like Functions Emerging in a Metallic Nanowire Network—Emerging Fluctuation-based functionalities are Expected to Open a Way to Novel Memory Device Technology—An international joint research tea...
Poverty, lack of social mobility, and government distrust contribute to U.S. gun violence, suggests a new study, which demonstrates that there is a "rich-poor gap" in gun homicide rates, and welfare spending may be related to neighborhood firearm homicide rates in the U.S.
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Poverty, lack of social mobility, government distrust contribute to U.S. gun violence
An analysis of shooting deaths in 2015 reveals social factors that may increase risk of death from gun violence.
A healthy mix of social nourishment (meaningful social interactions) and restorative solitude (contented alone time) is linked to human thriving, suggests a new study (n=389), which found that the more choice people have about the social mix, which forms their “social biome”, the better they do.
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Psychology Today
Social Nourishment + Restorative Solitude = Human Thriving
Most people thrive on a nourishing "social diet" that blends meaningful social interactions (that aren't too emotionally draining) with restorative alone time.
A new study of unproven ‘abortion reversal’ treatments discovered they were so dangerous that the trial had to be stopped almost immediately. Despite this, some states are forcing women’s healthcare providers to offer it.
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Neanderthals may have died out without help from modern humans: Inbreeding and declining health in small populations could account for the Neanderthals' demise.
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Neanderthals may have died out without help from modern humans
Inbreeding and declining health in small populations could account for the Neanderthals' demise.
BBC News 中文 | 【2019年热点回顾】一张女性的肌肉结构图在网上引发一场讨论,很多网民对女性结构图乳腺组织的外表感到意外。
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人类乳腺管照片"吓倒"网民
2019年 4月 26日 复制链接 https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/science-48062111?ocid=socialflow_twitter 关于分享 乳腺管?这是什么?为什么是这个样子?这东西真的在我体内吗?我再不想要乳房了。 以上都是人类乳腺管照片在网上疯传后,用户在社交媒体上的反应。 在女性的乳房中,有制造人奶的乳腺组织被分割成15-20片叶。而图中的小导管,负责将人奶从乳腺组织送往乳头。 也许这个事实并不广为人知,令许多网民看到女性肌肉图后觉得难以接受。…